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pasta
Italian · 1500s
"paste"
paste, describing the pigment ground into a paste and formed into sticks
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pastel
French · 1600s
"a colored drawing stick made from pigment paste"
settled in French for the colored drawing stick made from pigment paste
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pastel
English · 1660s
"a soft colored drawing stick, or a pale color"
adopted directly for the drawing medium, later its characteristic pale colors
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